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AJC Atlanta

Thinking Global, Acting Local in Atlanta

AJC Atlanta connects the community to AJC’s global advocacy work. Our local access to diplomats, elected officials, and ethnic and religious leaders advances AJC’s broader global priorities: combating anti-Semitism, promoting Israel’s place in the world, and countering the spread of radicalism and extremism.

Through innovative initiatives and coalitions, AJC Atlanta engages in high-level diplomacy with representatives of foreign governments in Atlanta and the Southeast. Each year we host a Southeast Diplomatic Marathon, a series of meetings with diplomats from nations across the world, where AJC leaders promote our advocacy priorities.

Our intergroup work allows us to leverage longstanding relationships with diverse ethnic and religious communities to advance issues of common concern. The Atlanta Black-Jewish Coalition, founded in 1982, has emerged as a central platform for education, outreach, and advocacy. Other intergroup initiatives include our Latino-Jewish Dialogue, Catholic-Jewish Nostra Aetate Celebration, and Muslim-Jewish Task Force.

We also host Atlanta’s premier young Jewish professionals program. Founded over 25 years ago, ACCESS prepares the next generation of Jewish leaders to engage the key challenges facing the global Jewish community, and empowers young Jewish activists to shape the conversation on today's critical domestic and international issues. Learn more about ACCESS Atlanta.

For nearly 75 years, our impact has been evident beyond the Atlanta community, yielding tangible results in government policies, strategic alliances, and hard-hitting legislation that have shaped our world for the better.

Upcoming Events

March 20, 2018

AJC University Luncheon: From BDS to Intersectionality on Campus

How Should the Jewish Community Respond? Join us on Tuesday, March 20 at 12pm for a special luncheon with AJC's Director of Campus Affairs, Seffi Kogen.

Marshall Society Insiders Tour: Preserving Iraqi Jewish

Please join us for a Sephardic-themed brunch followed by a Marshall Society Insiders Tour of The Breman Museum Exhibit: Preserving Iraqi Jewish Heritage. The exhibition details the dramatic recovery, which AJC helped to facilitate, of historic materials relating to the Jewish community in Iraq. Recovered from a flooded basement in Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters, these materials have been painstakingly preserved by the National Archives. This exhibition tells the remarkable story of the Iraqi Jewish experience and provides a vivid and unparalleled record of Baghdad’s Jewish communal life from the end of the Ottoman era to the early 1970s.

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Dov Wilker has been Regional Director of AJC Atlanta since 2011. He previously served as AJC Atlanta’s assistant director, and in that position, was selected to participate in the first United States professional exchange in South Asia, visiting Sri Lanka in the summer of 2009.